Setting up a Google Cloud Platform Environment

NOTE: This course has been updated.  You can find the new version at https://cloudacademy.com/course/setting-up-google-cloud-platform-environment-1697

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a suite of services that run on the same infrastructure that Google uses to host its own products, such as Google Search and YouTube. These services let you provision a variety of IT resources, such as virtual machines, storage, and networks.

GCP resources are grouped and deployed into projects. In this course, you will learn how to create and set up new GCP projects and how to give users permission to access project resources by assigning them to roles such as owner and editor.

Access to GCP services is provided via APIs that may be enabled on a per-project basis. You will learn how to enable APIs for a project as well as create budgets and configure monitoring for the resources and services allocated.

Learning Objectives

• Create new cloud projects
• Add users to projects and assign them to roles
• Enable GCP APIs and services for a project
• Provision Stackdriver accounts for monitoring project resources
• Add billing accounts and create project budgets
• Manage organization resources using the Cloud SDK

Intended Audience

• People who would like to become GCP administrators
• People studying for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer exam

Prerequisites

• None